Sotheby’s unveiled today their newly-expanded and reimagined New York City galleries, located in their global headquarters at 1334 York Avenue. Designed in collaboration with Sotheby’s by Shohei Shigematsu, of the internationally-acclaimed architecture firm OMA New York, the redesign features vast new galleries that were designed to provide the optimal exhibition space for everything from single objects to expansive collections, and can accommodate works of art of any scale. Opening today with Sotheby’s May exhibitions and auctions – including masterworks of Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art by Claude Monet, Mark Rothko, Francis Bacon and more – the new galleries increase Sotheby’s exhibition space from 67,000 to more than 90,000 square feet (the equivalent of two acres). Comprising 40 public galleries and 9 private sales salons of varying sizes spread across four entirely transformed floors,

A 500-year-old sketch of a bearded man was on Thursday revealed to be one of only two surviving portraits of Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci made during his lifetime. The drawing, believed to have been made by an assistant, is part of the Royal Collection and will be displayed in an exhibition at Buckingham Palace marking 500 years since Leonardo’s death. It was a quick sketch on a double-sided sheet of studies, most of them made by the Florentine master himself of a horse’s leg, in anticipation of a monument that was never completed. Martin Clayton, Head of Prints and Drawings at the Royal Collection Trust, compared it with the only other contemporary image of Leonardo by his pupil, Francesco Melzi.

Both were produced shortly before the artist’s death in 1519, and reveal his well-kept and “luxuriant” beard that was

Tate Britain today announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2019: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani. An exhibition of work by the four shortlisted artists will be held from 28 September 2019 to 12 January 2020 at Turner Contemporary in Margate. The winner will be announced on 3 December 2019 at an award ceremony live on the BBC, the broadcast partner for the Turner Prize. For his solo exhibition Earwitness Theatre at Chisenhale, and for the video installation Walled Unwalled and performance After SFX at Tate Modern, London. Self-proclaimed ‘private ear’, Abu Hamdan’s work investigates crimes that have been heard and not seen; exploring the processes of reconstruction, the complexity of memory and language as well as the urgency of human rights and advocacy. The jury was struck by Abu Hamdan’s exploration of sound as an architectural element and the way

Modern Masters: Group ƒ/64: Works from the Bank of America Collection opened to the public on Saturday, April 27, 2019. The exhibition features forty-four photographs by five legendary members of Group f/64—Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke, Brett Weston, and Edward Weston—who are regarded as some of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. It remains on display through Sunday, July 21, 2019 and will be celebrated at a public event on Thursday, May 2, 2019. “We’re proud to deepen our commitment to the arts and continue our partnership with one of our local cultural treasures, the Morris Museum of Art, by presenting Modern Masters: Group ƒ/64: Works From the Bank of America Collection,” said Ora Parish, Augusta Market President for Bank of America. “At Bank of America, we believe in the power of the arts to help economies thrive, educate and enrich societies, and create greater cultural understanding.”